RAISING THE STANDARDS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES

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1 I. INTRODUCTION: RAISING THE STANDARDS INTERNATIONAL THE CHURCH IN TRANSITION The church is in transition. The Lord Jesus Christ is preparing His Body and in this preparation there are great changes taking place. Any time there is change people will react to it; some react too much and some too little. Balance is difficult to keep outside of the wisdom of God and walking in the Spirit and in the Word. Our ability to deal with change properly will be a determining factor in how we are able to receive the Lord and what He is doing today. Too often we speculate about the church and what God is doing and do not form conclusions from a solid Biblical basis. For example, consider the traditional church service; we have the call-to-worship, three hymns, an offering, special music, many times a disconnected sermon, an invitation, and we depart on schedule just as in any other business meeting. Then we think that those in the world do not care about the truth or are just plain carnal because they don't want to come to our meetings! In the more Pentecostal style meetings, we greet everyone, do between 30 to 60 minutes of contemporary music starting with fast songs and ending with slow heart searching songs, a message which many times is a motivational speech without any Bible Scriptures, (although many are implied or alluded to), possibly an invitation to the altar or an invitation to coffee and fellowship after the service. Generally both styles of meetings are based more on bondage to the familiar, speculation or simple sentimentality than on an encounter with God. We do many things for these reasons. We sing certain songs because of sentimental memories associated with them. We hang on to certain traditions and rituals because that's the way they were doing it when we were saved, that's what happened when we were filled with the Holy Spirit, or that's the way our mother or grandmother did it. We hang on to the past because it's comfortable or we are emotionally tied to it. Or we completely throw out the past and always seeking the new thing with God when in reality we are seeking what will inspire our emotions for the moment. II. NO ONE LIKES DISCOMFORT: Many times we are kicked out of our nest of comfort and our first inclination will be to blame it on the Devil because we have been taught that "God always works in peace, and we're certainly not at peace now!" I can remember the first time I was in a church where people raised their hands and I thought, "Why do they have to do that?" And then they clapped. I didn't say it out loud, but inside I was begging, "Don't clap! You're putting our Lord Jesus Christ in the same category as entertainers and superstars!" I was Pastor Charles Morris Page 1 of 9 rsi.ministries.usa@gmail.com

2 fighting against this change; it was uncomfortable for me. It had nothing to do with spirituality, or Biblical truth, it was just uncomfortable. If we are not discerning discomfort becomes the enemy and we might find ourselves testing true spirituality by whether or not it is comfortable. To top it off, we mistake discomfort for discernment of the Spirit. We might as well say, "I knew it wasn't of God because I couldn't sleep during it." That's one side of the issue: we fight change because of sentimentality, comfort, and tradition, but these old forms will not meet the needs of the people. We can accuse people of being unspiritual for not coming to our church, but the fact is that we wouldn't show up either if it were not for our religion. I have asked many preachers, "If you didn't get paid, would you go to church every Sunday?" In a candid moment, when I promised I wouldn't tell anyone their names, many said "no." Yet many in the church fuss at the world because they won't come to hear the church's outdated language, irrelevant programs, and uninteresting discussions. We all battle within us to some level the need to be needed. It was God who said that it was not good for man to be alone. It was God who placed in us the desire to fellowship and draw from one another. The enemy and our fallen nature messed it up to where we use one another to satisfy a need within us. I spoke with a lady who admitted that both she and her husband had serious doctrinal and relational issues with the church they were attending. I knew the situation and was personally surprised that they remained in the church. I asked her one day why she and her husband stayed knowing the different doctrines and other issues. She responed she had a teaching position in the church she enjoyed and her husband was on the church board which he enjoyed and all the rest they just stuck their heads in the sand like an ostrich and ignored, including the Pastors sermons and teachings. How sad that this is their testimony of church existence. There is another extreme to our problems. At times we have looked at the church with some objectivity and realized that people were not responding positively, but we allowed our culture, not the Holy Spirit, to teach us how to reach them. In many ways we've become just another institution with a market mentality. We looked at the businesses of the world and the shopping center mentality and we decided to try the same thing. It is not necessarily wrong to learn something from sources outside of the church. However, we have often been too quick to adopt whatever works for the world. As a result many churches have adopted a capitalistic, market mentality, and that philosophy is basically "the customer is always right." Now if the customer is always right, then you've got to give the customer what the customer wants, on terms that he will accept. The December 17, 1990 edition of Newsweek Magazine contained a lead article entitled "And the Children Shall Lead Them: Young Americans Return to God." This article looks in depth at the growing trend of churches trying to please their "customers" (no longer called "believers"). This article discussed how commitment to a doctrine or truth Pastor Charles Morris Page 2 of 9 rsi.ministries.usa@gmail.com

3 was no longer considered important, but the "success" of a church was now determined by how good the programs are. It described how today's churchgoers inspected congregations like they did restaurants if one did not fit their needs or tastes they would just go to the next one. They no longer "convert," they shop for their churches! One pastor remarked: "The No. 1 rule of church growth is that a church will never get bigger than its parking lot." This new movement was called the Christian Growth Movement (CGM), which markets a businesslike marketing approach to church development. I'm not trying to be critical of churches that are trying to grow, but what is the purpose of the growth? The article went on to quote one pastor as saying that the concept of individual sin is kind of lost, because "people want support, not salvation, and help rather than holiness." We know to be the truth because over half of the books sold in Christian Bookstores today are self-help books. There can be something very right about wanting to meet the needs of people instead of sitting back in our comfortable forms and traditions and playing church. However, there is something terribly wrong with letting the people dictate the terms of their salvation. It is never right to do the wrong thing for the right reason. Our Lord Jesus Christ did not do it, the apostles did not do it, and neither has any true leader of the Biblical or historic church. There is a religious inclination in man that causes him to seek water to quench his spiritual thirst, and to find bread to feed his life starved soul. However, man will inevitably try to buy what he thinks he needs on his own terms and as cheaply as possible. Marketplace success is declared when the product is quickly consumed by the masses. So how do we know when a church is successful? Some would say When consumers buy the product? Others would say, When they fill the buildings and people attend the programs, a church is considered successful." We may read about some of these extreme forms of distorted priorities, but to what degree has this marketplace mentality affected us all? When someone travels to other Countries such as Africa, India and the Philippines we will see the American market enterprise at work in extreme. As a discerning historian once wrote concerning the gospel: "What began as a movement in Jerusalem became A philosophy in Greece An institution in Rome A culture in Europe and An enterprise in America Pastor Charles Morris Page 3 of 9 rsi.ministries.usa@gmail.com

4 III. BUT IS THAT WHAT THE GOSPEL IS MEANT TO BE? Is there an alternative to this mentality? Yes! And I believe we see that alternative in the one whose life was devoted to foretelling the coming of this gospel John the Baptist. John the Baptist is one of the greatest illustrations of a transitional man. His ministry is a transitional ministry: a transition from the Old Testament of law to the New Testament of Jesus and the fullness of mercy and truth. John represents the old but he embraces the new, so his ministry can be a pattern. There is much that we can learn from him about how God operates when times are changing. God does not yield to the mega-church, or the market, capitalistic mentality. He does not yield to the philosophy, the institution or the culture. God did not poll all the people of Israel to ask them what they needed. In fact, if He had asked them they would have said that they needed a strong military leader to free them from Rome. What they got was a Lamb who could free them from Rome and every other yoke. Our Lord Jesus Christ starts freeing us from the inside out. Yet they wanted to be freed from the outside in. It seems strange to us that the Lord did not showcase his great preacher in a metropolis. He sent John the Baptist, the first one to bring the direct Word of God for over 400 years, to start his ministry in the Jordan wilderness of all places. Today we would call that a "bad location." John did not have very good style either. Camel-hair clothes and a shabby leather girdle were not the height of fashion even then. Nobody told John that you're supposed to wear dark suits, red ties, and dress for power. Neither did his diet of locust and wild honey meet much approval. John was a perfect example of bad public relations and poor growth strategy. The only thing John had going for him was the anointing! IV. IS GOD IGNORANT ON HOW TO GROW A CHURCH? John's message was the coming of a new order. New orders do not follow trends, they set them. John's beginning in the Jordan was one of God's ways of sifting out those who just wanted to be in on the movement from those who were moved by the message. The people had to go out to John; John did not come in to them. If you have the anointing and the message for the times, you will not have to promote yourself. I think it's interesting today how many little "John the Baptist" ministries God is starting out there. Small rural towns are now becoming beachheads for the works of God. We are a HOUSE CHURCH ministry, believing that God desires to win a small town or a major city one house at a time. Therefore, we should not operate on the capitalistic market mentality of giving the people whatever it is they'll buy. John the Baptist Pastor Charles Morris Page 4 of 9 rsi.ministries.usa@gmail.com

5 preached a message of life. It was a hard message, but it had life-giving power. It's the message of a new order. The transitional messages will have the quality that sifts out the pretenders while imparting the hope that change is coming. John was saying that things were not like they used to be; he proclaimed a new kingdom that required both a change of mind and change of values. Changing their minds would ultimately change their lives. He emphasized that you do not add the kingdom of God to anything else. "When you get into this movement," he said, "you're going to trade all your jewels for one "pearl of great value." Yet today we see church s bringing messages that are spiritually correct so as not to offend anyone in the service, even the lost. The key to John the Baptist's message is the key to every transitional message, the Bible says that "the word of God came to John." A lot of people try to preach a hard message like John the Baptist, but nobody comes to them. It's not only inappropriate to let the people tell you what they think they need, it's also inappropriate for the messenger to assume he knows what the people need. The message must come from God. There is a lot of prophesying and preaching that is only man's opinion of what's wrong, and it focuses on sin and changing the externals or the behavior of a man. However, when John the Baptist came on the scene he started talking about a kingdom that changes the internals or the heart and mind of a man. It was an internal message of eternal life. Multitudes started going to him even out in the middle of the wilderness. The religious leaders came, the poor came, the sinners and tax gatherers came, and the soldiers came. Every sect of society came to hear the message of John. What did John say that drew such crowds of followers? V. WERE THE EARLY PREACHERS IGNORANT ABOUT THE RIGHT MESSAGE TO PREACH? According to the highest standards of good Public Relations he declared "You bunch of snakes! What are you doing out here? Who told you to flee the wrath to come?" In essence, John was saying that we can't just add the gospel to our little collection of gods. He preached repentance. The people had to change their minds and show that change. The multitudes begged him to tell them how they could apply this message to their Individual lives. We must preach life in order to get people to respond to us like that. John gave them specific examples. Every man who had two tunics should share with him who had none. If you had food and another didn't, give to him. John was saying that when you know the truth, it will make people the issue instead of things. Tax-gatherers asked, "What does it mean to us?" John said, "Here's what it means to you. Be honest." Isn't it wonderful that God's life is so direct and so simple? John the Pastor Charles Morris Page 5 of 9 rsi.ministries.usa@gmail.com

6 Baptist didn't have to write out a fifteen page sermon or a book on ethics to tell them what it meant. The soldiers came next. John told them not to take money by force, not to accuse anyone falsely, and to be content with their wages. In other words, don't abuse your position. Notice what John didn't say. He didn't say that commerce was wrong. He didn't promote communism or socialism. He didn't speak out against militarism. He talked about internals. This is the directness of God, the simplicity of God, the life of God. John came into all the districts around Jordan preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sin. That was the key to his message, and that is what God thinks the masses needed. Instead of polling the people to hear that they "need" a place to get together and have their own little club, that they want a Christian community where everything is under one roof, and that they need a support group for various deficiencies and affirmation for self, instead, God said that He knows what we need: We all need to repent and to be forgiven. When we are really forgiven we are freed from the guilt and condemnation that has crippled us and it liberates us to forgive others. Then we won't have to get together for the affirmation of others. We will want to get together because we love others and want to serve them. The thing that really keeps us in bondage is either not receiving forgiveness or not giving it. That is, quite simply, what John came preaching and teaching to the people. Notice John's attitude in all of this. He said, "Jesus must increase and I must decrease." Unfortunately, when things are going well and we have a message of life that people are responding to, the tendency is to become an end unto ourselves. The transitional church, if it becomes an end in itself, will become a part of that which is passed by. Now, more than any other time in history, we are called to decrease as Jesus increases. In the days to come you are going to see the temptation to be drawn to what the worldwide church is doing: the prophecy, the healings, the miracles. We are going to walk into a day when not only two or three in an assembly can prophesy but all can prophesy. His Spirit is poured out on all the sons and the daughters. Miracles are going to happen and the tendency is going to be "Look at us!" We cannot let that happen. When He increases we must decrease. We must also be willing to be nonessential. John the Baptist finally got his head cut off. His ministry was not a long-lived ministry because it was a transitional ministry. He was persecuted because he stood for the truth in a world of deceit. His message Pastor Charles Morris Page 6 of 9 rsi.ministries.usa@gmail.com

7 contradicted the mentality of the day. John kept magnifying Jesus instead of making a name for himself. Individually or as a ministry we may not get our head cut off, but we must be willing to be dispensable. If we are not willing to live with a dispensable mentality, when the greater ministry comes, we will end up competing with it, and ultimately persecuting it. If God says one morning, "Okay thanks guy, you did a good job but now your job is over," we must have as much fun closing the ministry down as we did building it. Otherwise we will become self-preservationists motivated by territorial rights which are controlled by territorial spirits. Now let's look at the life of our Lord Jesus Christ. In Luke 4, Jesus is baptized, goes out into the wilderness, is tempted by the Devil, and then comes back from his temptation. In Luke 4:14 (KJV) says, "Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit and the fame of Him spread throughout the surrounding districts." The Greek word translated "fame" is "pheme". It means "rumor." The rumor about Him spread throughout all the surrounding districts. Do you know that when God starts doing new things in your churches, or in your own life, rumors start? People will have speculations about what is happening. The second occurrence is in Luke 4:37. The King James version uses the word "fame" again. It says, "And the fame of Him was getting out into every locality and surrounding district." This is after our Lord Jesus Christ had begun to heal and cast out demons. The word for "fame" has changed here; it is the Greek word "echoes". This same word is used in other places to talk about the "roar" of the wind and sea. What used to be a rumor is now a roar. It will get rough as you go through the transition. There will come a time when the rumors become so loud you can hardly hear what God is saying, and sometimes you won t. Even your friends may turn against you. The third time this word "fame" is used in relation to the Lord's ministry is in Luke 5:15, "The fame of Him was spreading even further and great multitudes were gathering to hear Him and to be healed of their sicknesses." The Greek word here translated "fame" is neither "pheme" nor "echoes", but "Logos", the word of God. The truth finally gets out. Why do we go through the first two stages? It purifies us. It gets the false motives out and determines if we are truly going to be a part of what God is doing, or if we just wanted to be doing what everyone else was doing. If we are to make the transition into the new move of God we will be tested on this point. The rumor and the roar will get so loud that if you can be talked out of it you will be talked out of it. Pastor Charles Morris Page 7 of 9 rsi.ministries.usa@gmail.com

8 But if you will keep going there will come a time when the "logos" will prevail. Scripture says that the people began to come from everywhere because they wanted to be healed of their sicknesses. VI. THE NEED TO SEE GOD S LIFE IN US: They saw life and they wanted it. Of course, there are hazards and testing even here. People love life, but they are not always ready to receive it. When life begins to flow people are drawn to it, until that life starts to contradict their tradition. At this point, they realize that if they go any further they must deny their traditions and receive criticism. At that point many return to the old ways. Since we've been called to walk through transition, let's consider these observations. The institutional church is locked into many traditions. This is not meant as a negative statement; it is just a fact. God can overcome our traditions, but it takes nothing less than God to do it. Any part of the body that only consumes for itself without regard for the rest of the body is a cancer. One of the effects of the market mentality is that men believe that a name will give them an identity. When a child is born out of wedlock, people say, "Give him a name," but what that child really needs is an identity, not a name. He needs a relationship. There are people in the church today who feel disenfranchised because they're no longer Baptist, Episcopalian, Charismatic, Pentecostal, or any other main line denomination. In fact, they don't know what they are. Some of these are beginning to cry out "Give me a name." People come to our RSIM House Church ministry wanting to take on our name. We must say "No. That's not what we offer you. We do not offer you a name, but we will offer you friendship, relationship, and an identity. Would you like to submit to us and have us submit to you? We'll offer you a relationship, but not a name." If you have the market mentality and poll the people, they will tell you they need a name! They want doctrines and standards that define them and differentiate them from others. They may not say the word "denomination" but when you give them a name only, this tends to separate them from others who do not have that name. When an outsider asks why we have one name instead of another, we'll think up some differences in order to give ourselves a reason to exist. That is how denominations get started, most of them came out of a desire to be secure and to have an identity. But you already have an identity that is much greater. You are a child of God and you are related by blood to the rest of the children of God. Is that too idealistic? Do we have to start more denominations? Are our grandchildren going to have to destroy again what Pastor Charles Morris Page 8 of 9 rsi.ministries.usa@gmail.com

9 we're trying to get out of right now? God is offering us an alternative in this transitional time to say that it will work if we will get a word from God like John the Baptist. If we will preach life, simply and directly, if we will give people a relationship and forgiveness, then it will work. We are living in some of the most wonderful times in history. In the years ahead it will be said that these days were days of the greatest awakening in the church since the reformation and maybe since the birth of the church. Let us, like John the Baptist, keep our eyes on Jesus: let Him increase and let us decrease. Pastor Charles Morris Page 9 of 9 rsi.ministries.usa@gmail.com

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